The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-09
HOW TO MAKE HOME HAPPY
'Dietetic as Well as Esthetic Needs Must,
Mrs. Ewing Says, Be Attended To.
A Plea for Mans Stomach and Woman's Lib
erty-Christian Union Day at Bethany
Park-Rev. Rondthalers Address.

Yesterday was dull day at Acton Park As
sembly. All along the railroad the farmers are
sn watch in the fields for the sparks that each
passing train whirls into the dry grass, which,
,apidly ignitng spreads into blaze that threat
Ins barns and farm-houses. So the farmers
Itand with horses at the plow ready to turn up a
half-dozen burrows to cut off the spreading fire.
dany fences have been destroyed. and that the
damage has not been greater rs owing to the great
vatchfulness of the husbandmen. Some of
ihese fires have approached near to Acton Park
and every thing is dry there that the cottagers
are beginning to express some anxiety as to
what might happen if. in the somewhat cratic
cookery Of the camp, a blaze should be started
on one of the avenues.
At 3 o'clock, p NJ, yesterday. Mrs Emma P.
Ewing, professor Of domestic economy in the
Iowa Agricultural College, at Ames, Ia, lectured
on Home making" 1.-THE stomach" said Mrs.
Ewing. lis the most important and one of the
most delicate organs in human being. 1t is
not simply receptacle, as many seem to sup
pose, for luxures that have tickled the palate or
Tor suhstantials that will sustain life. 1t IS the
workshop In which are prepared all the materl-
ais essential to the building up of perfect men
and women, and its needs and demands should
be treated with thoughtful consideration. Inc
cultivated stomach appreciates contrasts ana
harmonies in taste as keeuly the cultivated eye
does in color or sound, and Is
mucn Jared and disarranged by iDharmoni-
Gus tastes either eye ear by inharmon1ous
sights and sounds. A healthy, cultured stomach
has no inordinaue cravings. no unsatished long
ings Good. wholesome, nutritious food salts
nes it perfectly Where this is eaten regularly,
at proper intervals and in proper quantities, all
the faculties are kept in healthful condition. and
there is no hankering for candy or chewing gum.
'or cigars or tobacco, for brandy, beer other
Jtimulants.
Food is one of the mightiest forces of the
universe The manners of men and WON en-
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diet Thoughts and acts emanations of the
things we eat and drink The food we eat con-
tains within it the principles OF
comeness or deformity, health or disease
life or death. 1t has a positive quality
in shaping character. habits and dispositions.
Badly prepared innutritious indegestibe food
drives thousands to saloons and drinking dens.
and the recruiting Offices of crime are filed with
stragglers from ill-kept, uncomfortable homes.
Personal purity, physical stamina and mental
vigor the products of q rich home life. But
yield such results it's foundations must be en-
bedded in aesthetic and hygienic laws No de-
partment of the home must be considered infer
io- subservIent to any other department
Each must harmonic with the other, and the
kitchen should rank with the parlor in neatness
and dignity If not in attractiveness and splendor
Books pictures, music, flowers, brio a brac
and articles of virtu are all educating and REIN
ing in their tendency, and the taste for them
should be cultivated and encouraged, but none
of them is such a vital necessity for the
mother of every family. The head of every
household should give at least much attention
TO the 01etetlc as TO the aesthetic needs or the
family; and the physical needs under his charge
should be cared for sacredly as their mental
spiritual needs. Woman has the happy fac
ulty of throwing about home the charms and
attractions that render it pleasant, in
wiling and restful The home is her peculiar
province. Home making and Housekeeping are
arts to which she is pre-eminently adapted. If
the women who are to be the future wives and
mothers of our country will qualify themselves
to govern and conduct the households
which they are destined to preside. the reign of
in ha " do IL md yUhJ
we now groan and suffer, will soon be superseded
by of orderly intelligence. Household
drudgery will become forgotten phrase, the
American home will be bright, delightful invit
ing; and the hand that will then WELD the potent
influence in moral. social and political affairs
will be the hand of the successful heme>maker.
II plead for the largest liberty and the widest
privilege for woman. 1 ask for her not courtesy
nor chivalry, but justice. l believe woman's
work is any work she has the skill and desire to
perform Woman's sphere is any sphere in
which she has the ability and energy to place
herself, and womans rights are the rights &C.
corded any citizen. But l know of no nobler
work than home work. prouder sphere than
the sphere of domestic duty, and no dearer right
than the rigbt to make a pleasant beautiful and
attractive home The od-time beliefs and pre-
JUDGES that have been entertained in regard to
woman for SO many centuries are rapidly passing
away. They have been reported over and over
again. and their falsity has been attested by the
experience of the generations that have lived,
loved and died. The estimate of woman in the
past has been selfish and low; it has brought
the trend of modern, cultured thought is toward
a purer, a truer and a higher ideal of female
ife and however unproductIve of great results
the dead years may have been for women the
future is for her full of encouragement and
hope
There many pursuits and occupations
open to women and so many that can be shared
by men and women with mutual advantage and
delight, that it is folly to spend time in talking
about woman's proper sphere or to waste words
in discussing the specific work to which either
sex IS peculiarly adapted. Such issues are dead
beyond the hope OF resurrection. Through all
the various relations of and daughter.
brother and sister, husband and wife, the sexes
are to each other an inspiration and support
q clog and hindranee and
I'm the worlds broad field Of battle,
In the bivouac of life,
they should stand shoulder to shoulder or clasp
hands in the mutual endeavor to aid. to inn
prove and to elevate zach other. Never before
In the worlds history have men and women
been nearly on an equality as they are to-day.
Never before have they iosted eacn other on
life's thoroughfares. Never before has woman |
occupied prominent and responsible a position |
as she occupies in this country this hour"
At o'clock last evening Mr.. G. E. Bolton, a |
very entertaining speaker delivered his third |
illustrated lecture the subject, Reunited |
GERMANY" closing his engagement. To-day Rev. |
g. B. jenkins will preach at IL o'clock A. NJ: at |
p. NJ Prof. b. J. Radford will preach, and at |
P. NJ. the latter will lecture on Christianity, |
he Religion of the Future" Tomorrow. at s |
?. Nj. Will Carleton. OF New York, will lecture |
On The Science of Home"
Christian Union Day at Bethany.
Yesterday forenoon Bethany Park was
spent in resting. A large weekday crowd was
'n the grounds. The exercises began with
lecture on Gods Mathematics" by Rev. George
L. Curtiss. D. D.. of Greencaste. In Whatever
felds the Christian student enters, the speaker
said, he finds that mind and power were an
terror to matter Gods footprints are every
where. Gods mathematics knows no variable
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